Mauss

"Between a wish and its fulfillment there is, in magic, no gap," wrote the anthropologist Marcel Mauss in "A General Theory of Magic."

Why We Prize That Magical Mystery Pad Virginia Postrel 2011

These books are often given as presents and, as the sociologist Marcel Mauss pointed out in his classic 1925 work, The Gift, the ritual of gift-giving is a tangled web of mutual obligation, duty and status-seeking which doesn't necessarily follow conventional economic rules.

A culinary nativity with Jamie, Hugh and Lorraine | Joe Moran 2011

Mr. Mauss silk-screens reproductions of his own loosey-goosey drawings, and black-and-white photographs from a news release explains "his own personal archive," onto thin sheets of aluminum, and then bangs them into a semisculptural state.

Shock, Light Therapy With Life Thrown In Peter Plagens 2012

The speeches at General Conference and elsewhere mostly emphasize long-standing doctrines and LDS standards already spelled out in official publications, said Mormon sociologist Armand Mauss of Irvine, Calif.

Mormon president can do no wrong to religion's members 2011

And if the form is the point, why does Mr. Mauss mess about with legible images, such as a photo of a mannequin leaning over a computer keyboard?

Shock, Light Therapy With Life Thrown In Peter Plagens 2012

Francois Mauss: sweet wines which have achieved by far the very best in all area.

Bordeaux 2009 en primeur — the dispatches! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

Francois Mauss: this vintage is the first one, from many years, where the difference between those looking for “power” (to be nice for Parker) and those who did look after finesse, complexity and freshness (i.e. without any work on extraction, having enough faith in the grapes), so where the difference is very sensible.

Bordeaux 2009 en primeur — the dispatches! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

Francois Mauss of the Grand Jury Européen also sent in some reactions via email.

Bordeaux 2009 en primeur — the dispatches! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

Francois Mauss: whatever may be said around, 2 huge success: Vieux Château Certan and Haut-Brion.

Bordeaux 2009 en primeur — the dispatches! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

The speeches at General Conference and elsewhere mostly emphasize long-standing doctrines and LDS standards already spelled out in official publications, said Mormon sociologist Armand Mauss of Irvine, Calif.

Mormon president can do no wrong to religion's members 2011